]]>http://politicoscope.com/eu-slams-turkey-offensive-in-afrin-syrian/feed/0Missile Commander Lt Gen Wei Fenghe is China’s New Defence Ministerhttp://politicoscope.com/missile-commander-lt-gen-wei-fenghe-is-chinas-new-defence-minister/
http://politicoscope.com/missile-commander-lt-gen-wei-fenghe-is-chinas-new-defence-minister/#respondMon, 19 Mar 2018 11:16:34 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2614Lt. Gen. Wei Fenghe joined the Second Artillery Corps in 1970 when he was just 16. He was sent to learn rocket engineering at a missile school under the Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence.

]]>http://politicoscope.com/missile-commander-lt-gen-wei-fenghe-is-chinas-new-defence-minister/feed/0Vladimir Putin 2018 Election Win: Here Are What to Expecthttp://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-2018-election-win-here-are-what-to-expect/
http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-2018-election-win-here-are-what-to-expect/#respondMon, 19 Mar 2018 10:35:54 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2610An emboldened Putin could position the resurgent Russian military as a peacemaker in other regional conflicts — for example in Libya, where Russia has oil interests and where a disastrous Western invasion seven years ago left a lawless state now seething with extremists.

]]>http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-2018-election-win-here-are-what-to-expect/feed/0Vladimir Putin: Mightier Than the Sword. First Among Equalshttp://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-mightier-than-the-sword-first-among-equals/
http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-mightier-than-the-sword-first-among-equals/#respondMon, 19 Mar 2018 09:27:03 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2594“Putin isn’t going to retreat an inch,” said Evgeny Minchenko, a Moscow-based political consultant who advises the Kremlin. “He’ll push for maximum independence from the West and build alliances with other centres of power.”

]]>http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-mightier-than-the-sword-first-among-equals/feed/0UK Lawmakers Say Brexit Should Be Postponedhttp://politicoscope.com/brexit-should-be-postponed-uk-lawmakers-say/
http://politicoscope.com/brexit-should-be-postponed-uk-lawmakers-say/#respondMon, 19 Mar 2018 01:00:04 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2582The majority-backed report said it is worrying that there has been “little progress” in solving the key issue of how to maintain an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after Brexit.

]]>http://politicoscope.com/brexit-should-be-postponed-uk-lawmakers-say/feed/0Vladimir Putin Triumphantly Re-Elected By Big Marginhttp://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-triumphantly-re-elected-by-big-margin/
http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-triumphantly-re-elected-by-big-margin/#respondSun, 18 Mar 2018 20:45:58 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2591Vladimir Putin was triumphantly re-elected Sunday for a fourth term at the head of Russia, after a plebiscite election denounced as enamelled fraud by the opposition. Vladimir Putin remains in the Kremlin until 2024, the year of his 72 years and 25 years after being appointed dolphin by an aging Boris Yeltsin.

]]>http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-triumphantly-re-elected-by-big-margin/feed/0Vladimir Putin Biography and Profilehttp://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-biography-and-profile/
http://politicoscope.com/vladimir-putin-biography-and-profile/#respondSun, 18 Mar 2018 16:45:16 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2575Vladimir Putin served as president of Russia, and was re-elected to the presidency in 2012. He previously served as Russia's prime minister. Vladimir Putin, a judo black belt, appears to symbolise two of the martial art's key qualities - guile and aggression. Putin has made no secret of his determination to reassert Russian power after years of perceived humiliation by the US and its Nato allies.

]]>http://politicoscope.com/free-syrian-army-turkish-forces-capture-afrin-in-syria/feed/0Accusations Come As Ethiopia Continues to Be Under State of Emergencyhttp://politicoscope.com/accusations-come-as-ethiopia-continues-to-be-under-state-of-emergency/
http://politicoscope.com/accusations-come-as-ethiopia-continues-to-be-under-state-of-emergency/#respondSun, 18 Mar 2018 12:05:04 +0000http://politicoscope.com/?p=2565The current state of emergency, which is expected to last until August 2018, is the second state of emergency to be declared in Ethiopia in the last two years. In August last year, Ethiopia lifted a 10-month state of emergency imposed after hundreds of people were killed in anti-government protests, demanding wider political freedoms.